Fabric for shoe-soles and other purposes



(No Model.)

(-1-. F. BUTTERF IELD.

FABRIG FOR SHOE SOLES AND OTHER PURPOSES;

Np. 325,785. Patented Sept. 8, 1885.

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WITNESSES: -|l\l\ EN-TURI NITED STATES GEORGE F. -BUTTERFIELD, OF

FABRIC FOR SHb'E-SOLES AND OTHER PURPOSES.

STONEHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LletteruPatent No. 325,785, dated September 8, 1885.

new and useful Improvements in Material for;

'Soling and other Purposes; and I do hereby declare that the same are fully described in the followingspecification, and illustrated in side, with elasticity in the whole.

the accompanying drawings. a

My invention is-a new manufacture, consisting of a piece, sheet,or roll of felt or equivalent light and yielding material coated on both sides with vulcanized rubber compound, one of said coatings being by preference, much thicker than the other, so that the material is suitable for soles or other purposes requiring special capacity to resist wear on theexposed In some instances I perforate the felt sheet at intervals before applying the rubber, so that the latter may enter from each side and unite through such perforations to bind the whole together.

The drawings showin section two forms of my improved material, Figure 1 being plain, and Fig. 2 perforated in the fibrous body, with rubber filling the perforations. Y A and "B are respectively the upper and lower coatings of rubber applied to the loose fibrous body 0 in the raw or unvulcainized state and cured or vulcanized thereon. The

I body Gjs preferably of'felt, which is light,

the feltsuch asvegetable fiber,

The thickness of the coatings Kand B wilF depend largely on the purpose to which the material is to be applied; but for most uses a l thin skin, barely suflicientto makeit waterproof,will suffiee for the upper side, while the side '8, which is exposed to wear, may have a thickness equal to that of the body 0, or even greater.

Y When the body 0 is thoroughly felted tow Application filed December 6, 1884. (No specimens.)

"gether so as to have no tendency to split'into two sheets, the surface-coatings shown in Fig. 5(

l will-be suificient; but in order to clinch the rubber through the body I sometimes perforate the part O, at intervals of an inch or so, and permit the rubber. when applied and under the pressure of vulcanizing, to penetrate '5 through such openings, as at D, and unite the two layers at such points to bind the three sheets into one fabric.

This material is adapted for a variety of purposes, among others for soles and heels of 6 0 boots and shoes. When designed for this. purpose, suitablyshaped pieces ma be cut out by dies from the sheet before vulcanization, and the rubber subsequently cured in suitable molds. ,The edges of the soles or heels will be covered with rubber, either by'placing around the piece itself or around the edges of I the recess in the mold a strip of rubber comjpound to unite with that on the surfaces; or where marginal spaceis left in the mold the rubber will fill it, and cover the edges of the soles or heels simply by its expansion in the" proeessof vulcanization. I am awarethat cotton both sides to produce practically non-elastic with rubber. I claim as my invention- 1. The new material herein'described, conv.

These I disclaim; but

'sisting of the thick yielding felted or equivalent body 0, having the water-proof coatings- A and B secured thereon, substantially as set forth. a I

Y 2. The improved material herein described,

consisting of the perforated yielding body 0 and 'tntwfiiibtersuriaees A' 'and B, united through such perforations, as at D, substantially as set forth. v

In testimony whereof I hereto affixmy signature in presence bf two witnesses. GEORGE-F. BUTTERFIELD.

Witnesses:

A." H; SPENCER,

C, G. KEYES.

ducklan'dother thin I woven goods have been coated with rubber on 7 

